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ARMSTRONG BENEFITED FIRE DISTRICT

ARMSTRONG BENEFITED FIRE DISTRICT (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,664 to it, the largest being LAND O'LAKES FOUNDATION ($1,664). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$155k
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$2k
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Against its field

ARMSTRONG BENEFITED FIRE DISTRICT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,719 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin36% · top quartile
Months of reserve34.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,719 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($108k) Expenses 100 ($70k) Net assets 100 ($666k)2018 Revenue 127 ($136k) Expenses 210 ($147k) Net assets 98 ($655k)2019 Revenue 116 ($125k) Expenses 190 ($134k) Net assets 101 ($675k)2020 Revenue 370 ($398k) Expenses 153 ($107k) Net assets 145 ($966k)2021 Revenue 166 ($179k) Expenses 243 ($171k) Net assets 146 ($974k)2022 Revenue 136 ($146k) Expenses 144 ($102k) Net assets 153 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 136 ($147k) Expenses 130 ($91k) Net assets 161 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 147 ($158k) Expenses 182 ($128k) Net assets 174 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 144 ($155k) Expenses 140 ($99k) Net assets 182 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (140)Net assets (182)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of ARMSTRONG BENEFITED FIRE DISTRICT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,472 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$37k
17
$11k
18
$9k
19
$291k
20
$8k
21
$44k
22
$56k
23
$30k
24
$56k
25
34
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $416.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of ARMSTRONG BENEFITED FIRE DISTRICT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

ARMSTRONG BENEFITED FIRE DISTRICT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 1 state in all.

MN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

20
21
22
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like ARMSTRONG BENEFITED FIRE DISTRICT

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Iowa

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARMSTRONG BENEFITED FIRE DISTRICT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ARMSTRONG BENEFITED FIRE DISTRICT?
ARMSTRONG BENEFITED FIRE DISTRICT (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,664 to it, the largest being LAND O'LAKES FOUNDATION ($1,664). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARMSTRONG BENEFITED FIRE DISTRICT have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,664 in grants to ARMSTRONG BENEFITED FIRE DISTRICT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARMSTRONG BENEFITED FIRE DISTRICT?
LAND O'LAKES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,664 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARMSTRONG BENEFITED FIRE DISTRICT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing